Some high-profile atheists insist on arguing against propositions that no serious Christian writer would endorse. This is a spirited corrective, argues Rowan Williams, covering the origins of the universe to the use of the Bible

Bureaucratic double-speak, tautology and ambiguous cliche not only dominate the language of public life from the health service to higher education, talking and writing badly also prepares the ground for military and terrorist action, writes Rowan Williams